Hussein Ghatawi

Hussein Ghatawi (14 October 1972-14 October 2012) was a Shi'ite Iraqi warlord during the Iraq War.

Biography
Hussein Ghatawi was born on 14 October 1972 in the Euphrates Marshes of Iraq to a Shi'ite Muslim family. Ghatawi and his family fled to Iran in 1979 to flee Ba'athist Iraq before Saddam Hussein began a campaign of killing against Kurds and Shi'ites, and he was educated in a state-run school. Ghatawi re-entered Iraq in 1992, joining the anti-Saddam resistance to resist the anti-Shi'ite genocide. Ghatawi became a leader of the resistance, and during the Iraq War, he took command of one of the Special Groups against the US Army and Iraqi Army. Ghatawi became a warlord and took control of parts of Mosul in the north, fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and other Sunni insurgents. In 2012 he was killed on his 40th birthday in a suicide bombing carried out by al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).